Woke up to a strange issue today.
I have my ISP modem connected to my Nighthawk Router. I have one Satellite in the office with two desktop PCs hard-wired to it. I have the second Satellite upstairs. I'm often on a laptop near the Router. We have about 25 devices on the network at a given moment, most are your usual smart home devices like a Ring camera, Roomba, Roku, etc.
Today the office Satellite throughput was abysmal. A speedtest on the PCs there was getting like 5 Mbps down and barely that up. Normally this is in the range of 300+ Mbps.
I restarted the Satellite in the office with no change.
If I put a desktop PC there on wifi (it has an integrated card), connecting to that same Satellite, because it was nearest, it would still only pull about 5 Mbps up/down.
The minute I cut off that satellite completely by powering it off, that PC on wifi would connect to the next-nearest and likely the Router, I'd get 300+ Mbps again.
So, something was up with that Satellite that a restart of it wouldn't resolve. Or two restarts. That includes an actual hard power-off/power-on.
The only thing that resolved it was restarting the entire network from the Router.
Tell me this isn't normal? I had a throughput issue on this same Satellite a few days back but a restart of it alone resolved that. I really don't want to be rebooting my network or even a satellite every few days or weekly. I rarely had to do that on the old Orbi I replaced.
